Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

There is a way to pass userid and password through variables in a script for running ftp command as below:

ftp -n $HOST <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD


I want to know similar way to use ssh command.

I currently don't have trust setup between 2 servers, but want to use ssh in a script and pass the uid/pwd as variables/parameters in the script itself.

Please advice.

Thanks in advance

Use the forum search tool. This question gets asked often enough.

Also I recommend strongly to set up key authentification and it is really not difficult. There are lot's of tutorials/guides on the net and also if you search the forum you will get hints.

Hi,

I tried searching in the forums before posting.
All I could find was about the steps to setup trust for using ssh without prompting for password.
Let me know if you know any thread for this requirement.

I don't want to get this done from our UNIX admins. Instead want to do ssh myself by passing uid/pwd in the script itself.

Please suggest me steps for that and that would be really great.

Thanks,
Raja

Hi,

I tried searching in the forums before posting.
All I could find was about the steps to setup trust for using ssh without prompting for password.
Let me know if you know any thread for this requirement.

I don't want to get this done from our UNIX admins. Instead want to do ssh myself by passing uid/pwd in the script itself.

Please suggest me steps for that and that would be really great.

Thanks,
Raja

#/apps/bin/expect << __EOF --specify the path of expect bin--
spawn ssh $USERNAME@$HOST
expect "*password:" {send "$PASSWORD \r" }
expect "*$" --specify your remote prompt in place of $"
send "exit \r"
__EOF

dddkiran,

Thanks for the syntax.
Unfortunately I don't have expect tool in my UNIX machines.

Please advice.

Thanks in advance...
Raja